- I wanna say when I first got to my team,
there was maybe one other guy with tattoos
and now there's almost half the team have something.
- [Interviewer] Who has the best tattoos
on the team?
- Can I say myself?
- [Interviewer] Yeah.
- I'll go with myself.
[laughing]
I'm Tyler Seguin and this is my tattoo tour.
[smacking] [upbeat hip music]
I grew up Brampton, Ontario.
A lot of people had tattoos,
but it was more the hockey players
that were older than me.
On their back they usually had their nationality
or their family coat of arms.
I was 16 years old when I got my first tattoo.
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I was moving away.
We move out at a younger age for hockey, around 15, 16,
so I felt like I could kinda do my own thing.
- [Interviewer] Did you have to get parental consent for it?
- Well legally yes, but I did not do that legally.
So [laughs].
I could probably see more and talk about more
when my shirt's off.
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My first tattoo.
It says my last name, Seguin, in case I forget my last name,
but if you actually look at the I, it's kinda off
cause they didn't wanna go over that mark right there.
My dad ended up getting the same one,
which made it a little bit cooler.
My father used to say, "Wear your heart on your sleeve."
so I literally got a heart on my sleeve.
In the heart is the birth dates of my family members.
I got words that important to me on my left arm,
perseverance, brotherhood, family, loyalty, honor,
and the family tree coming around it.
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The triangle's my two little sisters,
so my one triangle's finished cause I'm the first born.
My other sister, the middle one has the second
triangle finished and then the youngest one
has the other one finished.
I'm Greek, I put passion one way and strength the other way.
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On this bicep we got Toronto,
so the CN tower there.
Props to Toronto, where I'm from.
And then my streets I grew up in Brampton
and then 905.
Five candles back here for my family members.
We got something my dad used to always say.
Invictus.
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Time piece in the back.
My coat of arms is on one of these guardian angels.
- [Interviewer] What's your favorite tattoo that you have?
- Probably this one.
Stanley Cup champions, Boston Bruins, 2011.
It was awesome.
Sports city, a hockey town, hadn't won in a long time.
It was awesome.
Well the 531 is related to hockey
and a lot of people always say like, what does it mean,
is it 246, blah blah blah.
So one other person, my manager,
he got the 531, we both got it,
and to this day we've never told anybody what it means.
It has meaning to both of us.
Even my little sister, you can imagine her always
all over me about what does it mean,
but we've never told anyone, so I'm not gonna here.
So then I have my one chest done.
Wolf spirit, lion passion,
and I get chirped a lot, or made fun of a lot
from people I don't even know about my nipples.
Oh, this nipple not being done.
So I wanna say live now that I'm finishing this chest
and I'll have my nipples blacked out at that point.
You heard it here first, yeah.
[laughing]
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I do have one more tattoo that not many people know about.
[mumbling]
GQ, so I might as well show it here.
I got a little stick man in my armpit down in there.
I probably should've shaved, but.
So I was in Boston getting tattooed and all my friends came
and we were having a couple beers
and everything like that and one guy
asked the tattoo artist where's the most painful spot?
He said armpits I've found, are pretty painful.
So I said all right, let's do the armpit.
And all my other buddies got little stick mans
and one guy's got like Nike shoes on his
and I don't know, the dumbest tattoo I got,
if you wanna say.
- [Interviewer] Where do you rate it on the pain scale?
Did it actually hurt that much?
- They're all painful.
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- [Interviewer] What's your plan for your next tattoo?
- I don't wanna give details away yet,
hopefully you guys wanna call back
and do another shoot and I can show you
my new chest, but definitely gonna do the other chest.
I'd say there's a 80 to 90% probability I do my nipples
and then my plan is when I have kids I'll do my back
and have them engraved in that somehow.
It's an expression of yourself.
It's art.
I enjoy them and I'm all for it.